The Rant: NASCAR has some easy choices about safety ahead

The nature of the Daytona 500 is that something always goes wrong. We’ve come to expect some sort of delay: a pot hole; a car bursting into flames. Obviously, what happened on Saturday was something new.

The idea of spectators being injured by a crash on the sport’s most famous track is ridiculous. NASCAR officials couldn’t explain the situation because there was no explanation. It simply can’t happen. The question about safety improvement, however, doesn’t seem complicated to me. Raise the fence so pieces of cars can’t make it over the top. Make the fence stronger. These things aren’t radical, they’re just common sense.